James Franco celebrates Dave Franco’s 40th birthday public appearance

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James, 47, filmed with his brother at the 71st Taormina Film Festival in Taormina, Italy on Wednesday, June 11. Alison BrieMother Betsy FrancoJames, producer Tiziana Rocca James’ girlfriend Izabel Pakzadstanding next to him.

Appeared nearly a year after James’ first interview in years, during which time he publicly discussed the end of his friendship with his former collaborator Seth Rogen.

“I haven’t talked to Seth. I love Seth, we spent 20 years together, but I think it’s over. And it’s not because of the lack of trying. I told him what he means to me. type October 2024.

Seth, 43, responded to comments in a February 11 interview gentlemansaid: “Honestly, I absorbed so little media that it wasn’t really on my radar.”

“That’s what he wants to say,” the media reported.

James and Seth have co-wrote many films over the years, but in 2018, James was accused of sexual misconduct by five women. Four of the women are students of Studio 4 actors.

A woman named Sarah Tither-Kaplan James claimed “abuses his powers to exploit non-lawyer women whom he works with as a guise of giving them opportunities.” Good morning USA January 2018.

James denied the charges. In 2019, two students sued actors in the Los Angeles County Superior Court for sexual misconduct, claiming that James and his business partners led the “sexual behavior of female students by hanging roles in the project by giving them the power of their teachers and employers to sexually conduct for employers.”

Three years later, James agreed to pay $2.2 million to resolve the class action lawsuit.

“Although the defendants continue to deny allegations in the complaint, they acknowledged that the plaintiff raised important questions; all parties firmly believe that now is a critical time to focus on attention. [addressing] A joint statement issued after the settlement said abuse of women in Hollywood.

James spoke on the “Jess Cagle Podcast” in December 2021, months after the lawsuit was settled. Although he initially denied the allegations against him, he did admit to sleeping with his students.

“In my teaching process, I did sleep with students, and that was wrong,” he said. “But like I said, that’s not why I started school, nor is it the people I chose to attend classes. So it’s not my ‘master plan’. But yes, in some cases, you know, what you know, I know nothing about students, I shouldn’t have been there.”

James added: “As I said, I wasn’t clear at the time.

Elsewhere in the interview, he went on to say that he was “doing a lot of work” and “recovering from drug abuse because of “addiction-related” issues.